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ESIA Update for the Sanankoro Gold Project
ESIA Update for the Sanankoro Gold Project.
About this update from Cora Gold Ltd.
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n RNS Number : 5703V\n Cora Gold Limited\n 10 August 2020\n \n \n \n \n Cora Gold Limited / EPIC: CORA.L / Market: AIM / Sector: Mining\n \n \n 10 August 2020\n \n \n Cora Gold Limited ('Cora', 'Cora Gold' or 'the Company')\n \n \n ESIA Update for the Sanankoro Gold Project\n \n \n \n \n \n Cora Gold Limited, the West African focused gold company, is pleased to announce an update to progress made by Digby Wells Environmental ('Digby Wells') on the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment ('ESIA') for its Sanankoro Gold Project ('Sanankoro' or 'the Project') in the Yanfolila Gold Belt, Southern Mali. The commencement of the ESIA was announced on 4 May 2020. \n \n \n \n \n \n Highlights:\n \n \n \n \n \n ● \n ESIA continues on time and on budget with numerous concurrent work streams ongoing\n \n \n ●\n A Terms of Reference has been submitted to the regulating authority for Environmental Permitting to formally commence the ESIA Process\n \n \n ●\n Baseline water and air quality monitoring programmes established with several rounds of sampling completed \n \n \n ● \n Representative ore samples have been shipped to a laboratory in Australia for geochemical characterisation test work \n \n \n ● \n Socio-economic studies underway in the local communities including focus group meetings and household surveys \n \n \n ●\n Development of Environmental and Social design criteria to integrate best practice into engineering and project design\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bert Monro, CEO of Cora Gold, commented,\n \n \n \"I am delighted to report that the Digby Wells team has picked up where they left off with the Scoping Study. We appointed them a little over three months ago and in challenging conditions their team has been actively carrying out, with the support of the Cora field team, a number of parallel monitoring programmes and community surveys. The ESIA is a critically important part of developing a mining project so it's pleasing that we are making good progress so quickly. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \"The ESIA is expected to be completed in the middle of 2021 aligning it with our plans to move Sanankoro towards development as quickly as possible.\"\n \n \n \n \n \n Further Information:\n \n \n Due to this accelerated strategy for moving the Project forward, the ...